IUGS released first 100 Geological Heritage Sites and China has seven in the list

On October 26,2022,the International Union of Geological Sciences(IUGS)unveiled the First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites in Spain.These sites are located in56 countries,including 34 in the Americas,28 in Europe,15 in Africa and 23 in the Asia-Pacific-Middle East region(Table 1).The seven selected sites of China are introduced as follows(black font in Table 1).